The curfew is extending. The ruling morons change the rules more often than underwear. First it was curfew 20-05, now it's 17-05 and now it's also from saturday 13:00 to monday 05:00. So the plan that Lena and Milan would come today and pick the 120 eggs and a slab of bacon is off. I'll go there on monday and deliver. Too bad Api won't have the chance to run around here.
These days I'm trying to get just about anyone on the phone. Got aunt Milica a few days ago, she's fine. The nice thing is that her flat is right next to a little grocery, so she just tells the girl what she needs and then she gets it through the window. Tried to get one of the remaining uncles in Zajač but he's not answering. Last week got to Žarko and they're all OK, his wife is still on the job, I think she's in some medical production, so they probably work to the max.
One day I just wanted to call Bajlo, but he was faster :). I guess it's different in villages.
Yesterday, she put up the little tent for growing the saplings of tomato etc. She used to make it from plastic tubes left over from the heating, as old as 1993, which she'd just cover with plastic foil and secure the edges with planks. It wasn't too practical but it worked. This is some serious job with a frame like a real tent (though some couplings, not on the corners, are plastic), and with a mesh window with a foldable flap on it. Today, I had to go to the old house and pull out our old two-person tent, which we used in 1975, 1976, 1978 and 1988, plus a few times when the girls used it at dad's vineyard. Went also to Roda to buy 18 pašteta (from Droga Portorož, i.e. import from Slovenia, the one kind that we're sure is not too much grease and water and too little substance), about 7 packs of choco smoki (that all the kids like, even though it's just some kind of corn meal puff with thin chocolate glaze; they loved it even without the glaze), 2kg sugar (of which is not really a shortage, it's just that the supply chains can't always cope with the whims of rush buying), 3x1,5l of coke (for Violet only, nobody else touches it), 6x1,5l of Knjaz (the mineral water) and about six packs of chipsy (mostly for Raja, that's one of the six things he eats). The last one I returned to the shelf twice - first it was the wrong shape (flat instead of ribbed), then wrong taste (hot instead of plain salty).
Presently the girls are happy with the tent, playing in and around it. This lasted 2-3 days; the musty smell lasted two months. The tent stayed for a year, and nobody played in it, except the cats would bring any birds they catch, so it ended up being full of feathers and whatnot.
My project of moving Byo to Python, i.e. Dabo, is stalled. Because I read a lot, and Python is a big thing to read. It's almost as complicated and rich as dot nyet, but OTOH it's an interpreter and has a few cute javascript-like features, so I feel it's just as powerful as I need it, and Dabo looks like it may be the short way to replicate what I need. The controls in Dabo have the .controlsource, which was the strongest point of fox since 1995, where you put the alias.fieldname of the field in the table (or cursor) or the property of whichever accessible object which will hold the control's .value when it loses focus. Simple as that. In any other paradigm, you had to write at least one line of code per field to write the value from the control into the field, another one to read it from the field into the control. Only in fox (and now in Dabo, and possibly in Lianja and Xsharp too but then they all promise to inherit the good stuff from it) it's automatic.
Yesterday I tried to connect fox under wine to postgres database. It turns out that even though UnixODBC is reporting the error message, it's not installed (!). So it doesn't matter that I installed the driver, I don't actually have ODBC. So I tried
Command 'isql' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install unixodbc
$ sudo apt install unixodbc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Can't install some of the packages. This may mean you required an
impossible situaton or you are using an unstable
distribution in which some required packages still aren't made
or are removed from the list.
The following packages have pending dependencies:
unixodbc : Depends: libodbc1 (>= 2.3.7) but will install „2.3.6-0.1build1“
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
The part in italics was in cyrillic, which appears as question marks when I paste it here - for some reason, my locale here, in fox under wine is sr_RS, which is cyrillic, but the codepage is 1250, which is centraleuropean latin. So... I need UTF-8 here, and will have it in Dabo.